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Luke Combs Gets Emotional On New Album

Luke Combs’ new What You See Is What You Get album is out today (11/8), and Luke wasn’t afraid to get emotional in the new work. He told us, “I…

Luke Combs Get Emotional On New Album
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Luke Combs' new What You See Is What You Get album is out today (11/8), and Luke wasn't afraid to get emotional in the new work.

He told us, "I think there's a lot of guys specifically my age that have a hard time being emotional, which is... [an] absolutely huge mistake. And I think it leads to a whole lot of problems later on in your life. But I think it's okay to when your girlfriend leaves you to be sad about that. It's okay to cry when your dad passes away or it's okay to want to be a sloppy college guy, even though you're 29 years old and go out and get drunk and take a cab home like that."

Combs continued, "There's times when I feel like five different people. I can be a songwriter. I can be a fiancé. I can be a guy in the grocery store going to get what guys at the grocery store go and get. I think the songs are kind of like that. They're different like every day for me is different. I don't wake up every day and go, 'I'm a big famous country guy,' and that's it. I am who I am, you know, and I get sad about stuff and I have a good time and, you know, I reminisce on high school even though I'm playing Red Rocks."

He adds, "As long as you're doing what makes you happy, I don't understand why people are so concerned with what other people view them as, and I think the title 'What You See Is What You Get' is saying just that."

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.